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Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies

Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies

The bad boy from a good family.Oct. 29, 1955111 Min.
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Watch: Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that’s why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn’t get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato’s adulation and Ray’s real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and “chickie” games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff..
Plot: After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid’s real troubles begin.
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7.6/10 Votes: 91,492
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89/100 | MetaCritic
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not my favorite Nick Ray film by far, but it’s worth viewing as a “essential” from the 50s
I put quotations around the words “essential” in that one line because, really, I’m not totally sure what essential means really when it comes to seeing films from that decade. The general consensus- on which one might dub a film like Rebel Without a Cause overrated- is that this film is THE film on teenage angst and dislocation from the adults of the period, and that it’s essential because of James Dean, or that it might be considered director Nicholas Ray’s best film. For me though, “essential” is a very subjective term, and one person’s essential being this film is another one’s essential being Bigger Than Life or In a Lonely Place, films that get some notice in the film circles but not enough when placed against a film like the one here. It’s the kind of picture I end up recommending, but not exactly under the terminology of how I would find it to be essential or not, because I don’t really. It’s not a sort of seminal, staggeringly entertaining and artistically satisfying work about being an outsider in the 50s like On the Waterfront or even one most people wouldn’t think of like Ikiru. From a historical perspective, however, and for the significance of James Dean, it is worth a viewing, at least once, if you want to know at least what the industry leaned towards in the 50s.

Now, on to the actual film- it’s the story of Jim Stark, who is disaffected and with a sort of glow about him (if glow is the word, maybe just, um, malaise), and its more of a reflection on his parents (Jim Backus, who is actually quite good here, and Ann Doran as his mother) than on society as a whole. Not that society doesn’t have a part in Jim’s emotional downward spiral. He’s a kid who ends up getting connected to violence (‘Don’t call me chicken’ is coined famously, and maybe unintentionally amusingly, by Dean in this film), and all the while Dean plays him very calmly and coolly, with his big emotional bursts strong and piercing. But as I’ve yet to see his other two big cinematic roles in East of Eden or Giant, I can’t compare one to the other or not. On its own, his turn today almost borders on being too melodramatic, even too stuck in the period (Brando, as mentioned before, had the ‘normalcy of detachment and cool’ down to a T unlike Dean here who is good if not great). He’s followed along by compelling supporting work by Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood, as equally disaffected youth, but in different ways that end up clinging the three of them together.

The story, as much as it tries to, isn’t really as convincing as it tries to be, and unfortunately to me doesn’t hold up like it should. The convincing bits are still there, and some scenes are revelatory into the little things about teenagers, like the trip inside the planetarium- no matter how tough they think they are or act or anything, they can still be amazed by some things, the unknown that is. And the fight that happens after-wards- along with the ‘chickie’ drag race at night that leads to a tragic turn of events- are classic Ray-directed moments. But the classically trained style of film-making by Ray, with the level of subversion still there under the surface of the immediate context, isn’t as fulfilling when given to the story and characters and acting. Some characters are just outright silly or so one-dimensional that you can’t believe someone like Dean’s character would have to deal with them at all. Even an emotionally complex scene like the “it’s tearing me apart” speech doesn’t hit quite as hard as it might have in 1955. By the end of it all, I knew Rebel Without a Cause was worth viewing, but as an immediate masterwork of the Hollywood system? I’m not really sure on that, and certainly not if one’s talking about essentials from the director. B+

Review By: Quinoa1984
A Tale Of Three Misfits
In his three film trilogy James Dean worked with three of the best directors around, George Stevens in Giant, Elia Kazan in East of Eden, and Nicholas Ray for Rebel Without A Cause. The first two films came from the inspiration of two of the best American writers of the last century, Edna Ferber and John Steinbeck. But in Rebel Without A Cause the inspiration was director Nicholas Ray himself who wrote was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Story for the screen.

The Fifties was certainly the era for those rebel type films, but Rebel Without A Cause is unique because it deals with these bored upper middle class kids. It’s as different a film as The Wild One with Marlon Brando and those working class biker types or the urban school kids of The Blackboard Jungle as you can get. The problems of this crowd just don’t seem as serious as those in the other two films.

But because of the quality performances of James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo you do sort of feel for these kids. Dean is a misfit like he was in East of Eden, in fact his parents have just moved because of trouble he’d gotten into in his previous school. Unlike in East of Eden where Dean had this almost godlike father in Raymond Massey who he felt he couldn’t measure up to, in Rebel Without A Cause he’s dealing with Jim Backus who’s an ineffectual henpecked sort with Ann Doran and her mother, Virginia Brissac. Dean himself was raised by an aunt and uncle in Indiana so he could identify with both Cal Trask and Jim Stark. Come to think of it you could include Jett Rink in there as well.

Natalie Wood also has father problems, William Hopper who just doesn’t know how to deal with the fact that ‘daddy’s little girl’ is blossoming into womanhood. Her mother, Rochelle Hudson, is one of those who looks like she’s suffering a permanent headache and has abandoned the family ship to dear old dad. It’s more an absence of mother and Hopper trying to do both roles which he just can’t handle.

But Dean and Wood have parents. Sal Mineo is being raised by the maid in his very wealthy home. He’s got all the material things, but he’s a rather geeky kid who just doesn’t fit in. He’s also experiencing latent homosexuality in an age where that was the worst thing on the planet to be and no visible gay community to tell you it wasn’t. By the way Marietta Canty as the maid is outstanding in this film, she’s miles away from the maid roles of Louise Beavers and Hattie McDaniel.

So these three find each other and find a gang of kids who race their expensive automobiles against each other for speed and against each other for daring in the famous ‘chicken run’ scene. When the gang leader Corey Allen is killed racing against Dean, he becomes a kind of martyr to them and trouble brews for our three misfits.

Both Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo were nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor. Wood lost to Jo Van Fleet from that other James Dean classic East of Eden and Mineo lost to Jack Lemmon in Mr. Roberts. As for Dean he was up that year posthumously for East of Eden.

It wasn’t only James Dean’s tragic death that made him a legend. He was getting acclaim for his performance in East of Eden when he was killed on September 30, 1955. His stunning impact came after his death as fans were mesmerized by the promise of things to come in Rebel Without A Cause which came out about four weeks later and with Giant which Dean had just wrapped shooting on. This dead actor had film fans talking everywhere right up to the Oscars of 1957 ceremony where he was nominated for 1956’s Giant. If ever a player left the scene with fans begging for more it was James Dean.

Seen today over 50 years later Rebel Without A Cause still remains the ultimate film in teen angst. I think it’s destined to be so for generations to come.

Review By: bkoganbing

Other Information:

Original Title Rebel Without a Cause
Release Date 1955-10-29
Release Year 1955

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 1500000
Revenue 199963
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama
Director Nicholas Ray
Writer Stewart Stern, Irving Shulman, Nicholas Ray
Actors James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 3 Oscars. 3 wins & 7 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (optical prints), 4-Track Stereo (RCA Sound Recording) (magnetic prints), Dolby Digital (DVD version)
Aspect Ratio 2.55 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Warner Bros. Studio Laboratory, USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 123movies
Original title Rebel Without a Cause
TMDb Rating 7.59 1,321 votes

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